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A friend at church has gotten the itch to buy some lake property so she and Southern Man headed a few hours west to the lake to check it out. It's about thirty years old but sprawls across four lake lots,...

"Lindsey German from Stop the War Coalition says it is not one mentally-unbalanced US soldier on a rampage that killed 16 civilians, including nine children. The US and its allies have been on a rampage i...

Dalrok has a post up that every married man, or every man considering marriage, should read concerning the ease with which women will destroy their families out of nothing more than "feeling unfulfilled." ...

When the Alliance party collapsed in the late nineties its activists headed in two directions: into the Greens to turn the environmentalists red, and into the unions to rebuild them*. We know how succes...

The students who refuse to be silenced and their banned books: Students from the Mexican American Studies classes in Tucson, now forbidden by Tucson public schools, with the banned books by Chicano and Nativ...

Infections with the influenza virus A (H1N1) recorded an increase in Guatemala, with 55 confirmed cases and four deaths. In addition to the deaths of two adults in hospitals in the capital, the Ministry o...

When will Rick Santorum drop out of the race (or at least concede it's over): After Tuesday (Mississippi/Alabama/Hawaii)? After March 20 (Illinois)? After April 3 (Maryland/Wisconsin/DC)? After April 24...

President Barack Obama has called an incident in which an American soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, "tragic and shocking". In a written statement, Mr Obama said: "I offer my c...

I've fucking had it up to here with Facebook. And so have countless tens of thousands, at least. Since Zuckerberg's IPO took Facebook public, a lot of funky shit's been going down. I've managed to keep m...

Two Palestinian parties say Egypt is playing a major role in efforts to end violence between terrorists, IDF; Hamas says its working with Palestinian factions to broker ceasefire. While Hamas and the Pal...

Police negotiators are trying to save an elderly woman trapped inside a property with a knife-wielding man. Officers were called to the house in Sandwell, West Midlands, on Sunday morning after concerns ...

*One site of the shooting incident in Kandahar province, March 11, 2012. Credit: REUTERS/Ahmad Nadeem. * *On 11 March 2012, a GROUP of American soldiers murdered 16 civilians, including nine children, in s...

Protect children from the effects of poverty Sent to the New York Daily News, March 11, 2012 Paul Peterson says we should “Fix public schools before child poverty,” (March 11), arguing that low parental in...

My response emailed to Mr Nocera concerning the New York Times article titled "The Phony Settlement" found at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/opinion/nocera-the-phony-settlement.html?_r=1 Dea...

How we remember an event shapes how we act in the present and future. Memories of 3/11 are being carefully engineered in the mainstream media. On March 10 *The New York Times* offered an editorial by Sp...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:11:09 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 935 km (581 miles) West from MALE, Maldiv...

"This world government, being openly set up now, and the butchering of our basic freedoms in front of everybody right now, is the beginning of the end. Once the globalists have their world government, they...

Britain's leading banks are facing new allegations of mis-selling complex financial products to hundreds of small businesses despite them having little knowledge of what they were buying, a Sunday Telegra...

PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy threatened in a key election rally Sunday to pull France out of Europe's 25-nation visa free zone unless the EU does more to keep out illegal immigrants. Sarkozy, who th...

UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan has said he is "optimistic" following a second round of talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He said he had handed over "concrete proposals" to end the bloods...

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES EAST...

(Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Kabul warned on Sunday that anti-American reprisals are possible after Western forces went on a rampage in southern Kandahar province, killing at least 15 civilians. (9 Chil...

(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh tirade against the West, saying the Islamic Republic does not fear military action, Iranian media reported on Sunday. "The Iranian n...

(Reuters) - Families cried and held handkerchiefs over their faces to fight the smell of death as Congo Republic held a mass funeral for more than a hundred victims from last week's explosions at a weapon...

*Tenor José Cura as Samson in Karlsruhe, 2010. We're going to hear him later (perhaps not all that happily). For now, let's recall from Friday night's preview how Saint-Saëns' opera begins.* *CHORUS OF HE...

*“In the not too distant future, we anticipate that the cyber threat will pose the #1 threat to our country,” said Mueller at a conference. “We need to take lessons learned from terrorism and apply them to...

(Reuters) - Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldi...

*Saskatchewan New Democrats will choose a new leader early in 2013. The decision to hold a leadership convention in February/March 2013 in Saskatoon was made at a party provincial council meeting this we...

I'm just way behind in reading things that I'm not going to write about immediately, but I better get this up now rather than wait until I get caught up. So here goes, but I probably need more help than us...

(CNN) -- At least five people died and three were wounded when an apparent car bomb exploded near a church in central Nigeria, a witness told CNN. The attack hit St. Finbar's Catholic Church in Jos, a ci...

Perhaps I should call them "beautiful events" because they involve the beauty quark and not just ordinary strange quarks. ;-) On Friday, Antoine Marzin of Oklahoma gave a Moriond talk about the ATLAS se...

I once was able to walk, upriver to roam in glorious solitude through an extraordinarily pretty state park, called Hacklebarney, from my friend's pond. Over many years he had stocked it with an incredibl...

So much for my plans of a once-in-a-lifetime motorcycle trip from Panama to Vancouver Island. That route, it seems, has become Murder Alley. While we're all becoming aware of violent crime in Mexico, it'...

A curry house that Home Secretary Theresa May officially opened has been raided by her very own immigration officers. Five suspected illegal workers from Bangladesh were detained at her local restaurant ...

Remember the film Sleeper by Woody Allen and the part where information about the benefits of hot fudge sundaes and chocolate are discussed? Well Woody Allen was right. Chocolate is good for you. So I a...

To hear Big Oil and its political minions tell it, the Athabasca Tar Sands will be restored to their pristine state once the black sludge is finally gone. This stands right up there with their promise, l...

Internet spies triggered a security scare at Nato and in Britain after creating a fake Facebook account of its most senior commander to harvest personal details from his high-level friends. Chinese hacke...

Local resident Kristyn Dominy risked her life to save that of another driver on W. Ozello Trail — even though the other driver had made a rude gesture at her just moments before. According to the Tampa Ba...

The Iron Dome system has intercepted 90 percent of missile attacks on urban centers during the latest rocket bombardment from Gaza. The expensive systems were inaugurated last year amid controversy over it...

Federal Legislation Poised to Take On Affects from the 2010 BP Deepwater Drilling Disaster by Cherri Foytlin on Sunday, March 11, 2012 The search for justice for the communities of the Gulf Coast affected...

Afghan president Hamid Karzai is accusing a US serviceman of gunning down 16-people including 9-children and 3-women. Another 5 Afghans were said to have been wounded. A report in *The Guardian* claims t...

The war against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Arizona is not hyperbole. The man who ran a campaign to "Stop La Raza" explains the military strategy waged against the Mexican American Studies Department...

The End of Japanese Illusions~NYT ~Photograph: Yuriko Nakao, Reuters "Real existence"~Library Chronicles ~Brees had no knowledge about the "real existence" of the bounty program. From this we can reasonabl...

(a) I have written four books on writers: Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, and Ralph Ellison. Much of my time as a teacher of writing has also been spent searching for and listening to w...

I inherited a new companion a few months ago in the form of a cat. A neighborhood stray kept showing up at the back door late last November and has slowly become a member of the household. I'm not really s...

We've been talking a lot lately about the Republican War Against Women, the Republican War Against Education, the Republican War Against Science, and the Republican War Against the 99%. Today's Republica...

If you're in the GTA, here are the details. Rallies are being held across Canada. Check this Facebook page or do the Google to find an event near you. Demand a full public investigation. Demand a new elec...

A rogue US soldier has shot dead 16 Afghan civilians - including nine children - in their homes after leaving a base in the middle of the night, Sky sources have said. The Afghan victims also included wo...

The roof of an under-construction pump house at a proposed power plant site in Rajshahi collapsed yesterday afternoon, leaving at least nine workers injured. Fire service officials said they did not find ...

VANCOUVER - One person is dead and five others have been injured following two avalanches in British Columbia's backcountry. Coroner Barb McLintock said the fatality occurred Friday afternoon near Sparwo...

It seems that the swine flu menace has hit Jaipur with 6 cases being reported in the last 10 days. An eight year old was the latest victim who tested positive for the influenza on Saturday. Out of the six...

Drive to clean Dhaka's kitchen markets has not started yet, despite health experts' serious call to disinfect those after H5N1 avian influenza lurched from poultry farms to slaughterhouses. The Institut...

One of the worst live export tragedies is finally over leaving 2,750 cattle dead out of 5,600 on board a Brazilian ship headed to Egypt. The remaining animals are on land, after being stranded in the Red ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Experts have been trying to determine why seemingly healthy Hawks have been found dead throughout New York City parks. Several hawks have died in the past couple of weeks alone, in...

Like something out of science fiction, a deadly, alien fish virus is set to invade Quebec waterways, threatening the province’s multi-billion-dollar recreational fishing industry. The highly contagious a...

One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s. A study, presented in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, looked ...

The populations of almost half of the world's seabirds are thought to be in decline, according to a study published in Bird Conservation International. It found that 28 per cent of species are in the hig...

BRUSSELS: The dark clouds hanging over the eurozone have receded along with the threat of a Greek default, but the latest bailout for Athens may not be the last. After nine long months of negotiations, ...

A 14th-century castle in Slovakia has been gutted by a fire which broke out shortly after a group of tourists had left the historic building. Local media has reported that the blaze at Krasna Horka castl...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration is exploring options to halt the bloodshed in Syria but is deeply skeptical of military intervention out of fear it could worsen the humanitarian crisis...

I was going to give this BBC report on the latest Israeli/Palestinian violence but what's the point? I know it's biased crap, people who have the brains to think for themselves know this to be true and as ...

Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- The death toll has risen to six following an attack on a Kenyan bus station that left dozens wounded, the Red Cross said Sunday. At least 68 people are undergoing treatment at a N...

(CNN) -- Authorities have found the remains of 167 people, believed to be at least 50 years old, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said. The remains were discovered inside a cave on the...

Gaza City (CNN) -- An Israeli airstrike killed a 13-year-old boy in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said, bringing the number of dead there to 17 in three days of strikes. At least 35 have be...

The Teacher and Visionary Peter Deunov 1864 to 1944The Good *All of you can do good, because there is good in the hearts of all of you.* *Love gives birth to the good.* *The good is the foundation of life...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 103.6 km (64.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:10:54 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 431 km (268 miles) SSW from NUKU...

(CNN) -- After laying out plans aimed at halting the bloodshed in Syria, Kofi Annan, the special U.N. envoy to the country, will meet again with President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday in hopes of getting an...

(CNN) -- One year ago, a series of events began with an earthquake off the cost of Japan that culminated in the largest accidental release of radioactivity into the ocean in history. We have to be carefu...

KABUL — A U.S. soldier was taken into custody in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, a few hours after he opened fire on Afghan civilians, killing 10, U.S. and Afghan officials said. The shooting took place a...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- About 2,000 people have staged an anti-nuclear protest in Taiwan's capital as they observed a moment of silence to mourn the victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit J...

IITATE, Fukushima -- Before the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in March last year, the residents of this village rich in natural resources used to live in harmony. Now,...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The weather agency warned Sunday of heavy snowfall and strong winds mainly in eastern Japan and coastal areas along the Sea of Japan through Monday, while also warning of lightning strike...

VIENNA (Kyodo) -- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday that human errors were among the factors that exacerbated the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. "Ther...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The sum of compensation paid so far by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to people affected by the nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant is equivalent to only a quarter of the around...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The central government on Saturday asked three towns in Fukushima Prefecture to host temporary storage sites for contaminated soil and waste resulting from the nuclear crisis at the Fukus...

There's no such thing as bad publicity - or so Harold Camping would have you believe. The radio preacher was ridiculed last year after he claimed the world would end on May 21, and then again on October 2...

Barack Obama called Vladimir Putin yesterday to congratulate him on winning the election as Russia's next president. Obama and Putin spoke on Friday, five days after Putin won a return to the presidentia...

At one end of the value chain we have ebook pricing, which today is in need of a sustainable model that is in the consumer interest. After all, they are the final arbitrator and the only one who actually ...

A man accused of stabbing a judge and shooting a detective in a Washington courthouse before getting his mother to pick him up has been arrested. Steven Daniel Kravetz is suspected of shooting and stabbin...

A man has been arrested and charged with posting more than 100 threatening letters containing white powder to members of Congress. Investigators said Christopher Lee Carlson, 39, of Portland Oregon was i...

MTA Police Seeking Public's Help to Identify Man Wanted For Assaulting and Possibly Abducting Woman at Ronkonkoma Station The MTA Police Department is asking the public for help identifying a man witness...

A 12-year-old girl is suing her school district after staff at Minnesota middle school searched her Facebook and e-mail accounts. The sixth-grade Minnewaska Area Middle School student, named in court doc...

A twisted thug who decapitated a beloved pet cat is being hunted by police. The cat's headless body was found by a horrified homeowner in Dorset. The owner is said to be distraught after being informed of...

You probably didn’t notice but, at the end of February, Oldbury nuclear power plant, on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, shut after 45 years of operation. If it were any other variety of...

The last decade has seen the number of foreign offenders locked up every year in English prisons more than double, with only a few actually completing their full sentences. With the majority of them guil...

Perth is sweltering through the eighth heatwave of the summer and autumn seasons, the first time such an event has happened since records started being kept in 1897. The Bureau of Meteorology defines a h...

Image: A neutron star, the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, shown to scale against a satellite snap of Manhattan. At first glance it may look like a scene from the lates...

More than 100 people yesterday demonstrated against a planned cull of wild geese on Lake Windermere in the Lake District. Protesters waved placards saying ‘Kill the Cull’ and chanted slogans such as ‘Giv...

The BBC has re-hired six members of staff less than two years after they were given lucrative redundancy pay-offs. The six are among more than 1,000 employees who received severance packages worth up to ...

David Cameron is being ‘forced’ to pay a personal visit to a feared Central Asian dictator as part of a deal to secure the return of Britain’s military equipment when our forces pull out of Afghanistan. ...

The families of British construction worker Chris McManus and an Italian hostage had paid £1million to secure their release, it was claimed last night. Reports in the Italian media claimed the money was ...

Image: Iraqi activists said this unnamed teenager was brutally killed by religious police for having an 'emo' hairstyle Youngsters in Iraq are being stoned to death for having haircuts and wearing clothe...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 507.2 km (315.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:45:12 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 426 km (264 miles) South of Ndo...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 72.6 km (45.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:25:45 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) West from Naha, ...

"Don't run around this world looking for a hole to hide in." - *Rumi*, (Translated by Coleman Barks). "Even more emphatically than Aeschylus, Herodotus respects the Persians and considers them capabl...

A woman and her partner have appeared in court charged with the murder of her four-year-old son in Coventry. Daniel Pelka died of a head wound after being found unconscious at his home in the Holbrooks a...

Peshawar: At least 10 people were killed and several other injured when a blast hit funeral ceremony near Peshawar city of Pakistan;s Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province on Sunday. Police and rescue teams rushe...

Police divers are continuing to search for body parts belonging to former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie after her brother is charged with her murder. Tony McCluskie, 35, was formally charged on Sat...

A US soldier in Afghanistan is reported to have killed at least three Afghan civilians after walking off his base in Kandahar province. The soldier then surrendered to the US military authorities, the BBC...

[image: pic.twitter.com/1pcTiKzi] Featured here is Cecil Rhodes who helped the British Empire literally conquer a massive swath of Africa from the north all the way to the south, the portion over which R...

Smoke from controlled burning at Portland in Victoria has spread across south-eastern South Australia to Adelaide, prompting numerous calls from members of the public to fire services. A 230-hectare burn...

Two people have been killed on WA roads and another two have been seriously injured in a busy night for Perth police. A 33-year-old man was killed when his car hit a tree in the Bunbury suburb of Usher a...

Memorial services will be held around Japan today to mark a year since 19,000 people were killed in the country's largest recorded earthquake and tsunami. People in Fukushima and throughout the tsunami z...

A NSW Riverina hamlet has been evacuated and residents of another area have been given the all-clear to return home after six days. The 1000-strong town of Darlington Point was cleared as the swollen Mur...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northwest of the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 441.3 km (274.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:40:11 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 311 km (193 miles)...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Chukotka, Russia at a depth of 15.9 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:42:36 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) North of Provideniya, Chuk...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.3 km (25 miles), the quake hit at 23:25:43 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 246 km (152 miles) ESE ...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 44.2 km (27.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:41:10 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) North of Al ...

While his show doesn't sound quite like an NPR station yet, almost 100 advertisers have pulled the plug on sponsoring Limbaugh since he went on his latest deranged tirade, part of his never-ending misogyn...

My son came home from school just this week, and he said to me that his entire class had been made aware of a viral Youtube video about a LRA rebel named Joseph Kony, and an organization called "Invisible ...

"Big beautiful spiral galaxy M66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. About 100 thousand light-years across, the gorgeous island universe is well known to astronomers as a member of the Leo Triplet of ...

The original chart was comes from a document that was released by White House economic advisors Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein on January 10, 2009. Based on these predictions, Dear Leader easily conv...

Anonymous gathered near the Pompidou Center in Paris on Saturday with the objective of attract ordinary citizens' attention to the violation of rights and freedoms. In particular, the group is protesting...

Authorities have found the remains of 167 people, believed to be at least 50 years old, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said. The remains were discovered inside a cave on the Nuevo Ojo ...

*"Daylight Saving Time 2012: Change Your Clocks!" * by National Institute of Standards and Technology “As if you weren't already sleep deprived, you'll get an hour less shuteye Saturday night no matter wh...

Tomorrow officially marks the one year solemn anniversary of the greatest nuclear disaster in human history. One year ago, tomorrow, an earthquake, and resultant tsunami, occurred off the coast of Japan ...

*A survey taken at the initiative of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn found that 66 percent of restaurateurs who aced the city's new "sanitary grading system" rated it "poor."* *"I think the fact is ...

What are *Time Magazine* and CNN going to do now? They can't sell to America and the West a catastrophic war against Iran on the idea that war will liberate the women of Iran from Islamic despotism. Irania...

Written in response to a very nice article in the local newspaper. A suggestion for the Book Swap: Don’t include incentives Sent to the Cañon City Daily Record, March 10, 2012 I was very pleased to read th...

*“Pitching One's Mansion In The Place Of Excrement”* by Chet Raymo Stephan Pastis's comic Pearls Before Swine had a couple of strips recently about Donny the Dung Beetle. The gist of which was: If you thin...

California's 25th CD has been, politically speaking, one of the sleepiest in the state. A humongous district, it stretched from the northeast corner of L.A. (Santa Clarita) east and north through the Ante...

*"Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?"* "Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives- tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the bran...

No further comment is really needed here when the decision next November is between the policies of somewhat-progressive-seeming (but not really) Obama and the Rethuglican Clown Parade of the moment. (But ...

*Major Eric Joyce* Eric Joyce became a UK Labour Party Member of Parliament in 2000. In November 2011, Joyce brought attention to shady deals in the Congo. "Elements of the DRC government, in particular t...

It has been reported that whales are still being seen floating at the San Francisco Bay. At the beginning of this week, about two gray whales were spotted at the Golden Gate. Since then, the bay is bein...

Nguyen Van Binh, Head of the Department of Preventive Health under the Ministry of Health, stated on March 9 that Vietnam had recorded four cases of bird flu since the beginning of this year, two of which...

As my laptop flashes warnings to ‘Solve PC 4 issues’ while rhythmically activating pixels to march in command, I sit here weathering news of new days bringing a calm before the storm and grimace as my tens...

Britain could be facing another 18 months of potentially disrupted power grids, satellites and flights during a “few rough years of space weather”, according to a leading expert. Space scientist Maggie ...

If religion represents the beginnings of philosophical thought, then mythology is the means by which this early, primitive form of philosophical thought is portrayed. But not all mythology is equal. As...

VIENNA (AP) — Nine years ago, the United States invaded Iraq after telling the world that Saddam Hussein had covert weapons programs that could build nuclear arms. In the end, nothing was found. Today, ac...

Police have charged the brother of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie with murder after her headless torso was found in a London canal. The 29-year-old woman was last seen alive at a hospital openi...

*Contributor: "YYC"* In keeping with my newly-acquired aversion to popular combinations of red and black, I have decided to go with the colour of LIFE for my blog. Of Spring. Of new beginnings. Of sympathy...

*"Drones in Texas and Tanks in Tampa: * *Inside the Out-Of-Control Weaponized Homeland Security State"* By Stephan Salisbury "At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some di...

ROME — The crew of an Italian tanker was evacuated by helicopter Saturday after the ship ran aground off Sicily in storm-tossed seas, and took on water in its engine room. The Italian coastguard said all...

(Reuters) - Imperial Oil said on Friday that it had an oil leak at its 121,000 barrel per day in Sarnia, Ontario, according to a notice on a community alert system. "The site emergency warning sirens wer...

Bird flu has been detected in a government owned poultry farm at Gandhigram, about 18km from here, official sources said today. Director of Animal Resource department, Manoranjan Sarkar said following de...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:33:20 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 194 km (120.2 miles) East of ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) – Authorities say a container ship has run aground off Norway's southwestern coast, leaving a film of oil in the surrounding waters. Rescue service spokesman Nils-Ole Sunde said Saturda...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand at a depth of 188.1 km (116.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:26:24 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 381...

The storm produced a water spout that turned into a tornado when it came ashore in Lanikai. It damaged several homes. The damage ranges from downed trees to blown roofs, to even holes in the sides of h...

Thirteen people in the Otuzco province of the La Libertad region of Peru have contracted the bacterial infection, anthrax according to a report in La Republica. The form of anthrax, cutaneous anthrax wa...

Code Definitions YELLOW: Volcano is exhibiting signs of elevated unrest above known background level or, after a change from a higher level, volcanic activity has decreased significantly but continues to b...

State wildlife officials say 10 wild turkeys near the town of Olive in Powder River County have died of the avian pox virus. Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say the virus is most commonly contracted f...

Cristian Lopez a contractor for the Institute of Seismology has reported an increase in Activity of the volcano. He added that this does not mean increasing the alert level, which has been yellow since Oc...

This is how Krásna Hôrka, a castle in Eastern Slovakia, was known to the world for nearly 7 centuries: The castle (whose literal name is "beautiful little hill") has survived conflicts between Turks and...

*Contributor: "YYC"* In keeping with my new aversion to white, red and black, I am in the process of changing my blog colours. Unfortunately, when I changed the link colour the whole link disappeared. S...

Friday Paul Krugman had everyone buzzing with a wake-up call: Ignorance Is Strength, in the *NY Times*. The best anyone can say about the Republican Party's attitude about education is that they'll get be...

[image: Contaminated surface soil removed from an elementary school yard is buried in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on 6 September 2011. Kengo Hiyoshi] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 9 March 2012 Wh...

(CNN) -- Authorities continued their search Saturday for a suspect who allegedly shot a female officer, stabbed a judge and fled a Washington state courthouse. Undersheriff Rick Scott said the man gave h...

Washington (CNN) -- North Korea's agreement to halt portions of its nuclear and missile programs and accept the return of nuclear inspectors is a "modest step in the right direction," U.S. Secretary of S...

Gaza City (CNN) -- Hamas' armed wing threatened Israel on Saturday after airstrikes over the past two days killed at least 15 Palestinians across Gaza. Israel "will pay the price" for its actions in Gaza...

*"Two secret meetings in the prime minister’s office this month should become chapters in any crisis communications manual. One is the wrong way to handle major problem files. The other highlights the c...

(CNN) -- A top diplomat came face to face Saturday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an attempt to stop the carnage while on the streets, security forces continued to kill with impunity. Former U...

ERIE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- An elderly gorilla that lives at a U.S. zoo has a new companion: a bunny named Panda. The Erie Zoo's gorilla, Samantha, has been without a full-time friend since the death of R...

BEIRUT (AP) -- A high-profile international mission to end the Syrian crisis stumbled Friday before it began as the opposition rejected calls by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan for dialogue with President Bashar As...

In the course of reading the newspaper clippings from July 1947, I have made a couple of interesting discoveries. None of them really affect the Roswell research as we’re carrying it out. From the *Roswel...

HIROSAKI, Aomori -- Radioactive iodine levels exceeding international limits were detected in the thyroid glands of five people who lived near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant during the meltdowns there,...

This article marks, not a further advance in the general understanding, per se, but a correction in my own. I hope it will allow those who have previously rejected my attempted correction of climate scienc...

[image: Brown bears in Europe. Photo courtesy European Wildlife]VIENNA, Austria, 7 March 2012 (ENS) – There are no more brown bears to be found in Austria, say European wildlife conservationists, despite...

*... if she won't fire Harper? * *Contributor: "YYC"* From LaPresse (original in French) Google translation to English: The Queen refuses to dismiss Harper's role as PM *A Montreal woman who was fed up ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Just four hours after a tsunami swept into the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan's leaders knew the damage was so severe that the reactors could melt down, but they kept their knowledge s...

FUKUSHIMA -- The 12 municipalities situated wholly or partly in the no-go zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are faced with an agonizing decision: hold out as refugee communities in hopes of on...

[image: Tropical areas that will experience more than a 5% reduction in length of growing period (LGP) by the year 2050. ccafs.cgiar.org] Areas that will experience more than a 5% reduction in length of ...

**The* “primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an American tradition.”* *--Wisconsin v. Yoder* (406 U.S. 205, 215) In Texas, Colorado, New Yor...

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I've been 'around' for a few years now, pursuing the shifting goal of a sharable home-made surfers resource site focused on ease of use and variety of mostly adult ( whoa : I didn't say prurient ) content.